A passenger Ram Kumar Bajgain complained that a vehicle operated by the Jorpati Micro Bus Entrepreneurs' Association has been charging excessively high fare.
He said a microbus, Ba 1 Ja 8686, charged Rs 50 from Ratnapark to the Nepal Medical College, Attarkhel, Jorpati, against the normal fare of Rs 25. He had gone to visit his relative injured in the earthquake, undergoing treatment at the hospital.
Similarly, another passenger Manita Maharjan, said she made a phone call at 103 after the government through media called to inform it regarding the vehicles charging high transport fare, but the phone was not received.
Spokesperson at the Metropolitan Traffic Police Division, Senior Superintendent of Police, Poshraj Pokharel, said that many complaints of transport entrepreneurs charging high fare have been received after the quake.
He said, "We have sent a letter to the Department of Transport Management Department for action against such vehicles."
General Secretary at the Federation of Nepalese National Transport Entrepreneurs Association, Saroj Sitaula, said that some vehicles operators have been found cheating the passengers and hence recommendation has been made to scrap the vehicle operating license of such operators. RSS
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